Excellence in Education Conference at CSC again

About 150 school teachers, counselors and administrators and college students attended last year’s conference. This year’s theme is “Building Positive School Cultures for All Students.”

The keynote speakers will be Dr. Doug Christensen, Nebraska commissioner of education, and Dr. John Maag, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who specializes in education and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders.

Other sessions will include discussions on academic success for students of diversity, block scheduling for secondary students, the dos and don’ts for first-year teachers, science-based reading research, teaching middle and high school students with low reading ability and differentiated learning.

The five western-most educational service units are assisting Chadron State College and the Nebraska Department of Education in sponsoring the conference.

A special education instructor at Chadron State, Squier said she was favorably impressed with a similar two-day conference in Lincoln that she attended while living there. After moving to the western end of the state, she wanted to attend again, but noted that counting travel time, it would have been a four-day trip. Therefore, she organized the conference at CSC.

Squier may be contacted by telephone at 308-432-6334 or by email at csquier@csc.edu for more information.